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Baby Boom In Mushroom Village

Mushroom village, population thirty-five. Was perfect until Faerie Marie had quints. Six happy faerie midwives flitted toward the hive. They gobbled down all of Billy Faerie’s chocolate mints. Mama Brownie went into labor an hour later. Two of the midwives left the other four in charge, They raided the Brownies’ refrigerator, The biggest eater was the head midwife, Marge The doctor was considered incompetent now. As he had told them it was one baby, but it was actually three. Those joyful midwives could not stop yelling “marvelous!” and “wow!” I understood this as they handed one of the wee babes to me. Mushroom Village’s siren went off at a quarter to four. Extra midwives were recruited from elf town. We were getting another baby to adore. Joyful excitement was flowing all around. People were being awakened all night long. The whole village was abuzz and alive. We were a united population, now baby-strong. At 8 a.m. we repainted the village sign - Population 45.

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Date: 11/6/2018 1:35:00 PM
Wonderfully cute and charming; where do you get these ideas?
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/6/2018 1:41:00 PM
I make lists, M.L. And then when I start running out of ideas I begin flipping through my lists. When this does not work, I pick up the largest dictionaries I have ever found, and I flip the page in a haphazard way, forcing myself to use a word that "hits" me and sometimes many of them.
Date: 11/6/2018 8:56:00 AM
This was fantastic Caren. So whimsical and fun. I love the story here.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/6/2018 9:17:00 AM
Thank you Chris; I was thinking how cute it could be if the population increased this fast!
Date: 11/6/2018 7:57:00 AM
Hahahaha! Love how the little faerie midwives raided their refrigerators! ;D
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/6/2018 8:09:00 AM
Those faeries are corpulent, sassy, aggressive and happy.

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